Nuggets 104-94 Rockets (1 Dec, 2008) Box Score

Houston Rockets

11-7, 7-4 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	21	23	24	26	94
DEN	21	27	30	26	104

Denver Nuggets

12-6, 6-2 home

104

Houston Rockets

starters
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Yao MingY. Ming
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Luther HeadL. Head
bench
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Carl LandryC. Landry
Joey DorseyJ. Dorsey
Shane BattierS. Battier
Steve FrancisS. Francis
Brent BarryB. Barry
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
Von WaferV. Wafer
Aaron BrooksA. Brooks
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	3-5	0-0	1-2	0	5	5	1	0	0	2	2	-14	7
37	5-18	3-6	0-0	2	3	5	3	2	0	3	2	-13	13
31	5-12	0-0	8-9	3	8	11	0	0	3	3	3	-19	18
36	3-10	3-5	7-8	1	2	3	6	3	1	2	1	-7	16
28	1-7	1-3	0-0	0	4	4	4	1	1	1	1	-4	3
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	1	2	1	1	3	+9	2
23	5-7	0-0	4-4	1	2	3	2	1	0	0	2	+4	14
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	3-6	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	-2	6
24	5-8	3-5	2-3	0	3	3	4	0	0	1	2	-4	15
	31-76	10-20	22-26	10	28	38	22	9	6	18	17		94
	40.8%	50.0%	84.6%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Nene N. Hilario
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Dahntay JonesD. Jones
bench
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Steven HunterS. Hunter
Cheikh SambC. Samb
Chucky AtkinsC. Atkins
Anthony CarterA. Carter
Sonny WeemsS. Weems
JR SmithJ. Smith
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
14	1-4	0-1	0-0	0	3	3	3	0	1	2	2	+3	2
34	7-12	1-2	0-0	0	4	4	3	0	4	2	3	+11	15
35	7-13	0-0	3-3	5	5	10	1	1	0	0	5	+1	17
40	9-18	4-9	6-7	0	4	4	10	2	0	3	2	0	28
24	2-4	0-0	4-4	1	1	2	1	1	2	0	3	+11	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	1-4	0-0	2-4	2	4	6	0	2	5	2	1	+8	4
16	3-5	1-1	1-2	2	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	-7	8
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	1-3	0-1	1-2	1	4	5	4	0	1	2	3	-3	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	6-14	5-9	2-2	0	5	5	4	0	0	2	2	+17	19
	37-77	11-23	19-24	11	31	42	28	6	14	14	21		104
	48.1%	47.8%	79.2%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

DEN leads 1-0

Rockets
94
Nuggets
104

Game 1

1/12

Nuggets
96
Rockets
108

Game 2

17/12

Nuggets
113
Rockets
115

Game 3

19/1

Rockets
97
Nuggets
95

Game 4

10/3

Ball Arena

1:00 AM, 1 December 2008

Denver, CO

Attendance: 17,201

Referees:
Steve Javie
Tony Brothers
Scott Wall

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Houston	11	5	.688	-	W1
Memphis	9	7	.563	2	W1
Dallas	8	7	.533	2.5	W3
San Antonio	8	8	.500	3	W2
New Orleans	4	12	.250	7	L3

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	12	4	.750	-	W1
Denver	8	5	.615	2.5	W1
Minnesota	8	7	.533	3.5	L1
Portland	6	9	.400	5.5	L1
Utah	3	12	.200	8.5	L4

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